I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend by Cora Harrison

WebThe latest book, The Deadly Weed, was published in March 2023. 50th birthday outfitĬora Harrison Book & Series List - FictionDB When her children were young she and her husband moved to Kent where she took up teaching and after some years became a headteacher.

After attaining a first honours degree in French, she went to London and worked initially for the Linguaphone Institute. WebCora Harrison was born in Cobh, in southern Ireland, but was educated in the city of Cork. A novel by Cora Harrison “The competent and exacting detective’s contacts and knowledge of Cork again help her solve a difficult mystery in fine fashion.” – Kirkus Kirkus writes: In 1925 Cork, Ireland, a horrifying find in an old trunk leads an unlikely sleuth to further discoveries scarcely less shocking.She has also narrated many New York Times bestsellers. Her acclaimed 81-hour recording of The Complete Novels of Jane Austen begins with her Earphones Award-winning recording of Sense and Sensibility. White on Audible's top ten list of Best Author-narrated audiobooks of all time. Her autobiographical novel The English American won an AudioFile Earphones Award and joined President Obama and E.B. A rare gem in historical fiction.' San Francisco Book ReviewĪlison Larkin is an actress, comedienne, bestselling novelist, and the award-winning narrator of over 200 audiobooks. 'A delicious combination of historical fact and fabulously crafted fiction. This delightful, meticulously researched novel is followed by an afterward about the actual people and events on which the novel is based, including Jane Austen's disabled brother, George and the whirlwind courtship of Jane (Jenny) Cooper. When Jenny falls utterly in love with a handsome naval officer who better to help her than Jane herself, already an expert in love and relationships?

When fifteen-year-old Jane Austen's shy cousin Jenny comes to stay, their evenings are a blur of beautiful dresses, balls, gossip and romance their days are spend writing about them – Jenny in her diary, Jane in her witty first attempts at fiction. Bestselling novelist Cora Harrison's light historical romance in the form of a secret diary was inspired by real life events in the Austen family and will delight Jane Austen fans everywhere.

I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend by Cora Harrison